Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

It's Yarn Man vs. Cowboy Gorilla on Don Simpson's cover for Don Simpson's Bizarre Heroes #9 (1995).

(Standard disclaimer about cowboy gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Snowmen Attack!

I've collected cover scans for over 1200 comics with a Christmas theme, which at 25 per year would take me over 40 years to post them all! So every Friday during December this year I'm posting five theme-related Christmas covers.

Sure, they have songs that call them "Jolly Happy Souls," but you just can't trust those snowmen!







Strange Adventures #79 (1957) (by Gil Kane)
Donald Duck #2 (1984)
Donald Duck #6 (1986)
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (1992) (by Bill Watterson)
Action Comics #116 (1948) (by Ira Yarbrough)

Christmas Covers - December 25

For each day of December until Christmas I've been featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

We finish this season's celebration of Christmas covers with a scene of the nativity from Junior Partners #5.

We'll be back in December 2009 with twenty-five more holiday-themed covers.

(2007: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #194)
(2006: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #35)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
 

Christmas Covers - December 24

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Calvin and Hobbes open their Christmas presents on the cover to the Tommy og Tigern Julehefte 2007 by Bill Watterson.

Come back tomorrow for our final Christmas cover of the year.

Just 1 more 'get-up' until Santa!


(2007: Action Comics #105)
(2006: Dell Four Color #666)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
 

Christmas Covers - December 23

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)


The Black Cat has fallen asleep waiting for Santa on Ken Selig's cover to The Original Black Cat #8 (1992).

Come back tomorrow for our penultimate Christmas cover of the year.

Just 2 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun #22)
(2006: Girls Bravo vol. 6)
(2005: All-New Collectors' Edition #C-53)
(2004: Impulse #34)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
 

Christmas Covers - December 22

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Hey kids: Rags Rabbit is back for the holidays on the cover to Harvey Hits Comics #3 (1987). (I bet you didn't even know he was gone...)

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 3 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Marge's Little Lulu #90)
(2006: Dell Giant #26)
(2005: Man-Thing #3)
(2004: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
 

Christmas Monkee Covers - December 21

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkee Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with monkees on the cover!

Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday Monkee comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Celebrate Christmas like a teen-ager in 1968 on the cover of Teen Beam #2. I'm sure that Mike, Davy, Peter & Micky will appreciate it!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 4 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Bugs Bunny #46)
(2006: Wacky Squirrel #2)
(2005: Archie Giant Series Magazine #15)
(2004: DC Comics Presents #67)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 20

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Celebrate Christmas with Professor Garbanzo, Mr. Spook, Beanish, and the rest of the Beanworld residents on the cover of the brand new Larry Marder's Beanworld Holiday Special.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 5 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Archie Giant Series Magazine #218)
(2006: 52 week 33)
(2005: Strangers in Paradise #70)
(2004: The Amazing Spider-Man #314)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Friday Night Fights: Earth-2 Superman vs. Post-Crisis Superman

From Infinite Crisis #5 (2006). Art by Jerry Ordway. Letters by Nick J. Napolitano. Colors by Guy Major. Story by Geoff Johns. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow? Krashh!

Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: By Dickens!

I've collected cover scans for over 1000 comics with a Christmas theme, which at 25 per year would take me over 40 years to post them all! So every Friday during December this year I'm posting five theme-related Christmas covers.

Nothing says Christmas like sleepless nights, ghosts from your past, and difficult labor-management relations. That must be why Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a favorite this time of year!








Classics Illustrated #16 (1990) (by Gary Gianni)
Classics Illustrated #50 (1997)
King Classics #9 (1977)
March of Comics #33 (ca. late 1940s)
Marvel Classic Comics #36 (1978) (by Bob Hall & Steve Leialoha)

Christmas Covers - December 19

Superman and other heroes help Santa Claus pass out presents on Frank Quitely's cover to this year's DCU Holiday Special.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 6 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Walter Lantz New Funnies #167)
(2006: Omaha the Cat Dancer vol. 2 #1)
(2005: Marvel Comics Super Special #39)
(2004: The Spirit #12)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 18

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Trim the tree with Donald and his nephews on Tony Strobl's cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #364 (1971).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 7 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Guy Garder: Warrior #39)
(2006: Impulse #45)
(2005: Adventures of Superman #487)
(2004: Mutt & Jeff #32)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 17

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Dot wraps her presents on the cover to Little Dot #29.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 8 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Classics Illustrated #53)
(2006: Patrick The Wolf Boy Christmas Special)
(2005: A Patty Cake Christmas)
(2004: Superman #165)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 16

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Montgomery Wart appears to not have learned the lesson about licking cold flagpoles on Mark Martin's cover to Tantalizing Stories #2 (1992).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 9 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Funny Pages vol. 2 #43)
(2006: Katy Keene #33)
(2005: Bone Holiday Special)
(2004: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #76)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 15

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Rudolph helps Santa trim the tree on Rube Grossman's cover to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #7 (1956).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 10 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Donald Duck & Co. #49/1964)
(2006: 2000 A.D. #763)
(2005: Incredible Hulk #378)
(2004: Batman #45)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Monkey Covers - December 14

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with monkeys on the cover!

Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday Monkey comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Today's selection is Tom-Tom, The Jungle Boy #3, on a cover that might seem very familiar...

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 11 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Sugar & Spike #68)
(2006: Sugar & Spike #38)
(2005: Sugar & Spike #26)
(2004: Sugar & Spike #32)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 13

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Everyone's favorite mischievous tykes spy something they maybe ought not to on Sheldon Mayer's cover to Sugar & Spike #44 (1963).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 12 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Love Hina vol. 6)
(2006: Green Lantern: Mosaic #9)
(2005: Jonah Hex #34)
(2004: Starman #27)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
 

Friday Night Fights: Supergirl vs. Lobo

From Blue Beetle #18 (2007). Art by Rafael Albuquerque. Letters by Pat Brosseau. Colors by Guy Major. Story by John Rogers. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow? Kapow!

Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Santa's Got a Gun!

I've collected cover scans for over 1000 comics with a Christmas theme, which at 25 per year would take me over 40 years to post them all! So every Friday during December this year I'm posting five theme-related Christmas covers.

Peace on Earth? Joy to the World? Goodwill toward Men? Bah! Nothing says Christmas like a well-armed Santa Claus!







Ernie #12 (2000)
Iron Man #254 (1990) (by Bob Layton)
Läderlappen #12 (1980)
Spectacular Spider-Man #112 (1986) (by Kyle Baker)
The Last Christmas #4 (2006) (by Rick Remender)

Christmas Covers - December 12

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

A woman ponders an age-old comic book question on Janet L. Hetherington's cover to Eternal Romance #3 (1997).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 13 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2007: Liberty Meadows #24)
(2006: Veronica #6)
(2005: Dell Movie Classic #725)
(2004: Treasure Chest vol. 23 #8)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)